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JOHN S. 'DAVIS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE TOLEDO MOWER AND REAPER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN-BINDING HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,330, dated'April 3, 1883. Application filed September 1, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern: gear-plate portion of the binder-frame, the Be it known that I, JOHN S. DAVIS, of To binder arm shaft, the manner of connecting ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, the binder-frame and finger-beam, the rakehave invented certain new and useful Impost stand or support, and other parts. Fig. 55

3 provements in Grain-Binding Harvesters, of 6 is a view partly in rear elevation and partly which the following is specification. in vertical section on the line 6 6 of Figs. 3

My invention relates to improvements-to and 4, showing the binder-frame and mechanbe hereinafter distinctly claimedapplicable ism supported thereby, and a portion of the to grain-binding harvesters of the class usuplatform, andin part the mechanism supported 6: to ally designated platform-binders--that is, by it and by the finger-beam, including the thosein which the grainisdelivered in or nearly rotary swinging butt-guide and the reel-post in horizontal paths from the grain-platforms and shaft, and mechanism for actuating these to low-down receptacles, to be bound on or subdevices. Fig. 7 is a view in elevation and secstantially on the levels of the platforms and tion similar to Fig. 6, except that many parts in rear of the main frames of the harvesters. there shown are omitted, and the devices illus- The accompanying drawings represent a trated are represented in the positions occusuitable application of my improvements. pied after a gavel has been accumulated and Some of these improvements may, however, be compressed and has the band about it, instead used without the others and in machines difl'erof being, in the positions for accumulating a 70 ing in some respects from that shown and bundle, as in the preceding figure. Fig.8isa

hereinafter particularly described, and the deview partly in front elevation and partly in tails of construction may be modified in varisection on the lines 8 S of Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. ous ways without departing from the principle 9 is a view partly in elevation and partly in of my invention. section on the lines 9 9 of Figs. 1 and 6. Fig. 75 Figure 1 is a plan or top view, some parts 10 shows a vertical central section of the buttbeing omitted and other parts broken away or guide, and Fig. 11 a top view thereof. Fig. in section,especiallydesigned to show features 12 is a plan view, showing portions of the of the main frame and binder-frame and the platform, the carrier, and the carrier supportmanner of connecting the binder-frame, plating and adjusting mechanism, the belts of the 8; 0 form, cutting apparatus, 860., with and supcarrier being partly broken away; Fig. 13, a porting them by the main frame. Fig. 2 is a view partly in rear elevation and partly in side elevation representing features shown by section on the line 13 13 of Fig. 12. Fig. 14 is Fig. 1, parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a aside view of-a ratchet-toothed sprocket-wheel plan or top view, showing the binder-frame, which is loosely mounted on the main axle, 8 3 5 the mechanism supported thereby, and comthe pawl-carrier or dogplate by which said prising devices for gaveling, compressing, wheel is clutched with the axle being removed; binding, and discharging the grain, also showand Fig. 15, a view of the pawl-plate, showing ingthe inner ends of the platform,finger-beam, its inner face and the spring-actuated pawl; and grain-carrier, the out off, and gearing Fig. 16 is aview partlyin elevation and partly for actuating various devices, parts being in section on the line 16 16 of Fig. 1, showbroken away or in section, and the shaft and ing a portion of the lever and the detent degear-wheel by way of which motion is comvices by which to adjust the main frame to municated to said actuating-gearing being elevate or lower the binder-frame, platform, omitted. Fig. 4 is a side elevation represent- &c. Fig. 17 is a view partly in elevation and 95 5 ing features shown by Fig. 3, parts being partly in section on the line 17 17 of Fig. 1,

broken away or in section, and also showing showing the segment-gear, pinion, and rockthe sprocket-wheel and shaft and the bevelshaft by which the main frame is connected gear by which motion is imparted to the actuwith its vertically-adjusting lever, and also rating-gearing of the carrier, the binding mechshowing, in part, the lever and detent devices I00 anism, 850. Fig. 5 is a front elevation reprefor tilting the platform, 850., and securing the senting the binder-gearing supported by the parts in their adjusted positions. Fig. 18'is a plan view, showing portions of the main frame, tongue, diagonal bracing-connection between the tongue and frame and seat-supporting cross-piece, with the mechanism for tilting the finger-beam, &c., and for rocking the main frame to raise and lower the finger-beam, binder-frame, &c. Fig. 19 is a section on the line 19 19 of Fig. 8, showing one part of a casing for the shaft of-a rotating packer and two of a series of shorter sleeves, also incasing the packer-shaft, and having ears to which to attach cleaners or strippers for clearing the grain from the packer-arms. Fig. 20 is a plan view, showingdetails ofclutch and clutch-shiftingmechanism by which to control the actuations of the cut-offand grain-carrier; Fig. 21. a section on the line 21 21 of Fig. 20; Fig. 22, a front elevation of the clutch-shipper or vibrating lever actuated from the rock-shaft of the cut-01f to throw the carrier into and out of operation; Fig. 23, an end view of the cut-off shaft and its attachments; and Fig. 24, a top view of the outer end of the cut-offshaft, showing its crank and shipper-actuating cam and a portion of the pitman bywhich the shaft is rocked. Fig. 25 is a plan view of a two-part or doublytoothed idle-pinion which drives the packershaft, gear-wheel, and is actuated by the driving-gear of the binding-gearing. Fig. 26 is aplan view of a pinion which is rotated by the packer-gear and intermittingly drives a large gear wheeltermed the binder gear-by which thehnotter, binder-arm, &c., of the binding mechanism are actuated. Fig. 27 is aplan view of a pinion which is intermittingly act- 'nated by the binder gear-wheel to operate the cut-off. Fig. 28 is a view of the outer or front side ofthe binder-gear; Fig. 29, a top view of the binder-gear, and Fig. 30 a view of the inner or rear side of the binder-gear, with the pinion of the knotter-shat't represented in dotted lines. Fig. 31 is a plan view, showing details of the knotting mechanism and manner of supporting the knotter box, the top of the box being removed. Fig. 32 is a plan view, showing the knotter-box without the coverand the knotting mechanism, and with mechanism by which to retain the grain in the receptacle as accumulating, compress it while being hound, dog the binder-arm while a knot is being tied, and discharge the bound bundles. Fig. 33 is a view in elevation, as seen from theouter or stubble side of the machine, of the knotter-box, the knottor-pinion, the retainer, compressor, and discharger, and the mechanism for dogging and releasing the binder-arm and the compressor, the binder-gear being shown in section and the knotter-head or tying-bill omit-ted. Fig. 34 is an end view, showing the knottcr-pinion, the rock-shaft and attachments thereof by which the device for retaining, compressing, and discharging the bundle is controlled, and the rock-shaft and its attachments for dogging and releasing both the binder-arm and the device by which the gavel is compressed, &c. Fig. 35 is a detail view in elevation, showing the binder-arm as in its lowermost or locked position, a compressor which is actuated thereby to compact the bundle from above, and the combined retaining, compressing, and discharging device, the dotted lines showing said device in the position which it is caused to assume during the looping of the cord and tying of the knot. Fig. 36 shows a section of a tu bular stud or thimble and alongitudinal view of a bolt, with its nuts and washers, used with said thimble to secure the binder-gear in place, similar devices beingemployed to mount other members of the binder-gearing upon their supporting-plate. Fig. 37 shows two views of the box for mounting the gear end of the packershaft upon the gear-supporting plate. J

In some respects features shown in connection with my present invention are the same as or more orless nearly resembledevices and combinations of mechanism shown ,and described in connection with or as constituting the subjects-matter of sundry prior inventions of mine, including improvements set forth in United States Letters Patent No. 260,668, dated July 4,1882, for improvements in grain-binding mechanism, No. 252,081, dated January} 10, 1882, for improvements in grain-carriers, No. 267,061, of November 7, 1882, for improvements in clutches, and No. 271,430, of January 30, 1883, for improvements in harvesters. United States Letters Patent numbered 261,590 and 261,591, for improvements in grain-binders, both dated July 25,1882, also show inventions made by me prior to the date at which the improvements hereinafter claimed were made, parts of which inventions may be applied to suitable machines in connection with my present improvements, or some of them.

In order to provide a binder-harvester which shall be very light and of easy draft as compared with the usually-constructed weighty and unwieldymachines, and at the same time be strong and durable, I provide, as in turn to be fully explained, a main frame and an auxiliary or hinder frame and a grain-platform connected therewith and with each other, and so construct or organize these parts, support them upon the main axle, and mount upon the main frame and binder-frame the mechanism carried by them that, in connection with the weight of the driver, there will be sufficient weight concentrated at the outer or stubble side of the machine and in front and in rear of the main axle to relieve the grain-wheel of injurious downward pressure and to properly balance the machine upon its main support or drive wheel.

The driving and main supporting wheel A is fastened to its axle A, and is surrounded by a main frame, B, which, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is suspended from the main axle A by brackets or down-hangers B B, provided with suitable bearings at their upper ends, and at their lower ends firmly bolted to the frame, so that the frame may be rocked about the axle as though made in one piece with its suspending-brackets. The main frame, it should be noticed, extends along close to the drivewheel at the inner or grain sidethereof, and I corner, and also serves as a support for the at the opposite side of the wheel the frame is at a distance from it such as to bring the greater portion of its weight outside of the center of the drive-wheels tread, and so as to admit of locating the cutter-actuating gearing inside the frame and at the outer side of the wheel. By mounting the main frame and arranging the gearing in this way they aid in counterbalancing the weight of parts inside of the drive-wheel, and as the gearing is located in advance of the axle its weight also assists in counterbalancing the weight of parts in rear of the axle. The main frame has two forks or arms, I) b, at its rear, preferably provided by forming the frame of a flat wrought-iron bar bent into a yoke or U shape, and this yokeshaped bar, near the rear or open end, being firmly braced by a tie-piece or cross-bar, B bolted or riveted at its bentends to the opposite members of the yoke, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. The cutter-driving crank-shaft O is outside the drivewheel and inside the main frame, and is mounted at or near its rear end in a bearing, b, bolted to this cross-bar portion of the main frame. At its opposite end the crank-shaft is mounted in a bearing formed in a hollow gear-block or casing-support, (3, bolted by a flange to the main frame at its outer side. A bevel -pinion, 0, fast with the crank shaft, is actuated by a bevel-gear, G which is fitted loosely on a shaft, 0, mounted in the gear-block, and rotated by a pinion engaging the internal gear of the driving-wheel. Internal ratchet-teeth on the gear 0 are acted upon by a pawl on the inner face of a plate, 0 fixed to the shaft 0. The pawl is so formed, mounted, and acted upon by a spring that it can be caused to keep the bevel-gear locked to its shaft, except when the machine is hacked, or be set to allow of the rotation of the shaft independently of the gear, as will further on' be understood with the aid of Figs. 14 and 15 and the description of the connection of the axle and its sprocket-wheel.

A tongue, A is jointed at its heel to the main frame, close to the inner front corner thereof, in suitable way, as by means of a piv ot-bolt, a, and its thimble or inclosing'sleeve and nuts and washers. This bolt it also serves as a means of connecting the forward end of a diagonal brace or draw bar, with the front end of the main frame. This draw-baris also supported by being suspended from the axle by a hanging bracket, a, similar to the before-described main-frame brackets B B. This bracket a fits at its upper end, by its box or bearingsleeve, on the inner end of the axle A, and its lower end has the draw-bar bolted to it. A cross-bar and seat-supporting piece, A is bolted atone end to the under side of the tongue and slightly in advance of the main frame, outside or beyond which itextends and supports the drivers seat A well outside of the main frame,and in advance of the axle. A bent brace bar, B connects the tongue with the main frame close to its outer front cross-piece A The rear end of the brace B is pivotally connected at a with the main frame diametrically opposite to or directly in line with the point of pivotal attachment of the tongue to the inner front corner of the frame. From the pivot-bolt a the brace extends straight forward to the front edge of the cross-piece A which rests beneath it, and is rigidly attached to it by an angular casting or bracket, 13*. Bolts passing through the vertical and base portions of the bracket and through the brace and cross-piece, together with a flange or side ledge, b overlapping the brace, firmly connect the parts together. The brace B is. bent at the front edge of the crosspiece A and extends diagonally forward to the tongue, to which it is firmly connected by a bolt, b at its front end.

A rock-shaft, U, is mounted above and extends parallel with the tongue-attached crosspiece A'". It is provided with a rocking lever, 0 and detect devices, and acts by connecting mechanism upon the main frame, so as to rock the frame about the axle A and raise or lower the finger-beam, 850., attached to the rear of the frame. This connecting mechanism, as shown, consists of a pinion, 0 fast on the rock-shaft, and a sector-gear, 0*, cast with a flanged clip or socket-piece to embrace the main frame, to the front cross portion of which it is firmly connected by bolts. The rock-shaft is suitably supported by being mounted at one end in a bearing in the bracket-casting B and at its opposite end in a bearing in another bracket, A", secured to, the cross-piece and to the tongue by bolts passing through its base and through its vertical portion. This bracket terminates at top in a detent-rack, a with which engages a spring-actuated detent,'a., of well-known construction, of a lever, A, to which is connected a link, a for tilting the finger-beam, &c., as further on made apparent. This tilting-lever rocks loosely on the shaft 0 The lifting and loweringlever O is mounted. loosely on the rock-shaft G and is provided with a locking dog or pawl, D which is pivoted to the lever and controlled by a link and handle, b

} This lever-pawl engages a detentwheel, B fast on the rock-shaft, so thatthis shaft may be turned by the driver while in his seat. A detect-holding dog, I)", is pivotally supported by the casting B and provided with a crank, If, by which it can be operated by the drivers foot to release its hold on the detent-wheel B when the rock-shaft is to be actuated by the lever and pawl 11' in an obvious way.

Acranked rock-shaft, D, is mounted in advance of thecross-piece A in bearings formed by brackets d (1, respectively bolted to the tongue and to the brace B A lever, D, serves to rock the shaft D, and means are provided by which this lever is made to hold the shaft in any desired position of adjustment. A link-rod, D serves to connect the crank d of the rock-shaftwith a butt-guide or device for evening the grain on the platform, so as to adjust this device, as further on to be described, by actuating the rock-shaft. The lever D is in this instance adapted to turn with the rock shaft, while capable of swaying slightly in the direction of the length of this shaft or toward and away from a detent-plate composed of lugs projecting from a plate, D formed with the bracket (1. cured to the lever and acting on the detentplate, serves to hold the lever normally in one of the spaces formed between two of the lugs, while allowing the lever to be disengaged for adjustment by the driver, who first pushes the upper end of the lever toward the tongue, and after moving it allows the spring to return it to its locked position against the detent-plate. Any suitable form of detent mechanism may be employed instead of that just described.

A light supplemental binder-frame or skeleton support for the binding mechanism has rigid connection with a finger-beam, D, and grain-platform D and with them is pivotally connected to and supported by the main frame B, and partakes of their rising and lowering and rocking or tilting movements. This binderframe, as shown, is composed mainly of two sills, E E, the heel end or prolongation of the angle-iron finger-beam and the corresponding prolongation of a rear piece or back-beam, D of the platform, the two bars or sills E E being curved upward at their ends and secured to the heel extensions of the finger-beam and back-beam at such distance apart as to make the width of the binder-frame substantially the same as that of the main frame, in rear of which it is located with the front of the one frame lapping the rear of the other, and the binder-frame so constituting an adjustable rear section or jointed extension of the main frame. A vertical trout portion or gear-plate, E of the binderframe supports all the gearing of the binding mechanism well forward on the binder-frame, close to the drive-wheel, to guard against exerting too much downward pressure upon the rear end of the main frame, and much the greater portion of the weight of the binderframe and the parts mounted thereon is located outside of the line of tread of the drivewheel, as will further on more fully appear.

The sills E E are duplicates, and are made of metal-preferably steel-to secure strength and durability with lightness. Near the points at which they are curved upward in front the sills cross beneath and are firmly fastened to the finger-beam D by means of bolts and angular brackets or clip-castings E E, which in this instance also in part serve for pivotally attaching the binder-frame and finger-beam to the main frame. These angular fasteningbrackets, as best shown in Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 6, are exactly alike, except thatoneis right and the other left. Each bracket is made to fit against the under side of the finger-beam, to which it is securely fastened, as by bolts 6 e,

A spring, (Z se-- and is provided with a longitudinal flange projecting upward from its rear edge to bear against the back of the finger-beam and strengthen its connection therewith, and has also at one end, on its under side, a downwardly and forwardly projecting angular flange or rib,

the portion 0 of which flange fits against and is bolted to the inner side of the sill E or E, while the front portion thereof constitutes an ear, eZbetween which and the sill there is space sufficient to receive one of the rear branches or arms, I) I), of the main frame. Pivot bolts or pins 0 6 passing through these main-frame arms and through the bracket-lugs c c and sills E E, make the jointed connection be tween the main frame and binder-frame. The pivot-bolts are directly in line with each other for an obvious purpose.

Suitable fastening-brackets, E E both of which are shown by dotted lines, Fig. 8, and their securing-bolts, serve to firmly connect the sills E E near where they bend upward at their rear ends to the platform back-beam B. These brackets are substantially alike except in size. One of them is clearly shown in Figs.

2 anti 4, by inspection of which, in connection with Fig. 8, it will be seen that the brackets are of angular formation, being bolted by their rearwardly-extending lower portions to the sills, and bolted to the back beam by their upwardly-extending portions.

Bars or metallic straps d, (1 and d are bolted or otherwise securely fastened to the finger-beam and to the platform back-beam by their bent rear ends. The platform bottom or boarding is fastened to these straps, which, or at least the intermediate one, 01 are by preference made of steel. The strap d is made of runner shape, being curved upward at front to form a shoe or shoe-like projection, D The securing-bolt al which passes through the strap 01 and finger-beam, also passes through a clip-fastening or angle-bracket, F, beneath the beam, and above the beam through the base of a stand or bracket-support for a reelpost, further on to be described.

The bracket F serves to pivotally connect the rear end of the draw-bar G with the fingerbeam at a point where it is braced by the runner-strap, and directly in line with the beforedescribed two pivotal connections of the main frame with the binder-frame. As shown in Figs. 1, 5, 6, and 9, this bracket is provided with a perforated two-armed or slotted lug, to which the draw-bar is jointed by the pin or pivot-boltf, and has a rear edge flange,f, projecting upward to bear against the back of the finger-beam, and an'oft'set or downwardly-projecting rear portion, F, at and near one end, constituting a seat up against which the runner-strap d bears. A bolt, f and the bolt d serve to hold the fingerbeam and bracket firmly together;

To facilitate construction and secure strength with lightness, the gear-supporting frame-plate E is best made in the slotted or skeleton form shown and in a single casting, (malleable iron or steel,) suitably flanged and ribbed.' It has l binder-frame is greater than the width of the securing lugs or feet G G, by which it is rested upon and bolted to the sills E E, as shown in various figures of the drawings. The bolts 9 g, by which the feet G G are secured to the sills, are relieved of the weight of the frameplate and its mechanism by sustaining shoulders or flanges resting on the sills, as best shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6. The plate is recessed or cutaway between its feet, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) so as to straddle and pass well above the rearportions or arms, b I), of the main frame 3, as well as above the crank-shaft G and its bearing 1). In this way the main-frame arms may continue straight to their jointed connection with the binder-frame and finger-beam, instead of being curved or bent, as they would have to be to pass beneath the frame-plate were it made straight or unreeessed at its lower edge. The frame-plate straddles sufficiently far above the main-frame arms and crankshaft to allow of all requisite rocking movements of the binder-frame, finger-beam,-&c., without causing the plate to come in contact with the frame-arms or-parts mounted thereon.

Besides the above-described connection of the gear-supporting plate E and binder-frame sills,-these parts are firmly connected together by staybolts or tie-rods G G and nuts. The bolt G is suitably attached at one end to the upturned portion of the sill E a short distance beneath its top or near its extreme end, and at its opposite threaded end passes through a hole provided for it in the gear-plate, and is adjusted and secured by the jam-nuts g g on opposite sides of the plate. The bolt Gr is secured at its opposite ends to the top of the upturned front end of the sill E and to the gearplate by the nuts 9 g By using two nuts for securing each of the tie-rods to the gear-plate, as shown, these rods may be fixed against both pulling and thrusting strains, andthe gearplate and sills be thus firmly bound together. The front upturned end of the sill E is still further braced and stiffened by means of a nearly upright standard or curved bar, G

on top of them.

which also serves as an inner reel-support, and as a means of connecting the lifting-lever link a with the finger'beam, 8m, as further on explained. This trussing or stiffening bar is bolted at its lower end to the sill at 9 and is attached by a bolt at g to the end or top of the upturned portion of the sill. The inner reel-support and sill are still further tied'together by a firmly-attached bearing bracket or box, G, for a shaft, G to be hereinafter more fully referred to. This box, as shown-in Fig. 4, is secured to the reel-support and sill by bolts 9 and nuts. At their upturned rear ends the sills E E are firmly connected and braced together by a cross-bar or tie-piece, H, Angle-pieces or corner-irons h h and bolts and nuts serve, as plainly shown in Fig. 8, to fasten the cross-piece and sill ends together. The sills are also connected by a heavy sheet-iron band, H, and their rear ends thus further braced. As the length of the platform, a closely-floored rearwardly-projecting extension of the binder-frame is in this way provided to support the head ends of long stalks of grain as delivered from the comparatively narrow platform. As will be understood from inspection of Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 8, the curved rear extensions of the binder-frame sills have the sheet-iron secured to them by bolts or rivets'passing through the sills and through flanged edged ribs or brackets h h, which are riveted to the band.

A box-han ger or suspended bearing-support, H is connected to the cross-piece H by bolts. (See Figs. 2, 4, and 8.) A box-casting or bearing-bracket, H is bolted to the top outer corner of the cross-piece. A packer-shaft, H and a binder-arm shaft, 11*, to be further on more fully referred to, are supported in the bearings h h of the box-hanger H and boxcasting H A bracket or stand, F serves to support a reel-post, F, as well as a grain-evener or buttguide and its actuating mechanism, as in turn to be described. This supporting-bracket (see Figs. 1, 5, 6, and 9) is shown as of angular or flanged form, and as provided with the rearwardly-projectin g horizontal shank or attaching-arm F secured to the finger-beam Dby the bolts (l f f The attaching-arm, as in this instance formed, is recessed at f to'straddle thecutters, so that the cutter-bar and cutter-blades may be reciprocated freely and space provided for escape of clogging substances beneath the stand. The upwardly-projecting lateral flange or inner wing, F of the reel-post bracketis curved to correspond with theourvature of the shoe or runner D", to which it is strongly secured by bolts f and has formed with or attached to ita bearin g for the beforereferred-to shaft G Upon the side of the stand opposite that from which the wing F projects another flange or wing, F ,is provided. This outer wing, F is slightly curved horizontally and accommodates the reel-postsecuring bracket to the butt-guide, further on described, the wing extending from the base portion or attaching-arm F in which it merges,

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to the stand proper or upright main portion of the bracket, to which the reel-post is attachedby boltsf and nuts, which also serve to secure the inner divider, F

As, under the organization shown, all of the automatically-workin g parts of the mechanism, except the cutters, have motion communicated to them through or by way of the shaft G this shaft will hereinafter be referred to as the sprocket-wheel, t, fastened to the drivingshaft at its outer end, are also provided. The I cured, and this tube serves to fasten the butt bevel-gear 1 serves to impart motion to the binder-gearing on the gear-plate E and the outer sprocket-wheel, 2', serves by means of a chain, 1 and other mechanism, such as next to be described, to actuate a reel and a buttguide or grain-evener, K.

The chain 1 passes over a sprocket-wheel, J, fastened on a reelshai't, J, which is provided with suitable bats or beater-arms, as

usual, and is supported at one end in a bearing, h, formed in a bracket, h bolted with the top of the inner reel-support, G The bearing-supportj, for the other or outer end of the reel-shaft, is formed by one of two boxes provided by a bearing-bracket or box-casting, J made of flanged or angular form, so as to cmbrace two sides of the reel-post, to which it is strongly fastened by bolts passing at right angles with each other through the post, as shown in Figs. 6 and 9. The other box,j, of the bearing-bracket J supports a stud-shaft,j which is pinned in place, and has a sprocket-wheel, and a bevel-gear, J loosely mounted on its outer end. This sprocket-wheel and bevelgear are cast together or else rigidly connected, so as to turn with each other on their shaft. The sprocket-wheel is engaged and actuated by the reel-driving chain 1 and the bevelgear J 3 engages a bevel-pinion, j, fast on an upright rotating shaft, K, to the lower end of which the butt-guide K is fastened. The upper end of this rotary shaft is mounted to turn freely in a swinging two-part box or divided bearing formed in a recessed or forked boxhanger or bearing-casting, J hung loosely on the shaft j so that it may swing thereon between the boxj and hub of the bevel-gear J. The pinionj resting in the casting-recess or space between the upper and lower sections of the double bearing for the butt-guide shaft,

and being securely fastened to this shaft, serves to support it and the butt-guide against vertical movement. The butt-guide and its shaft are adjustable toward or away from the platform, so as to adapt the butt-guide to act upon the grain to the greatest advantage as it is moved along the platform toward the place of binding, as further on explained. The butt-guide has a serrated or corrugated rim, or is in equivalent way provided with horizontally-extending projections on its periphery, to engage the butts of the grain and insure its proper evening action upon the stalks as it is rotated about its vertical or nearly vertical axis.

As shown by Figs. 10 and 11, the circular butt-guide is made hollow or of drum shape, with properly-roughened or tooth-like periphery, and of minimum weight, by the employment of light disks or wooden heads, is k, to which the vertically-corrugated sheet-metal periphery It is tacked or screwed. A light cast-metal tube, K fitting central perforations in the butt-guide disks, is provided with annular collars or flanges k W, to which the drum-heads or disks are bolted or otherwise seguide to its shaft in suitable way. By thrusting and pulling upon the link D by means of mechanism before described, the butt-guide is adjusted asits shaft is swayed by the reciprocations of a slide-bar, K, to one end of which the link is connected, and in an oscillating box, K, in the opposite end of which the butt-guide shaft isjournaled near its lower end and above the butt'guide. The box K is trunnioned or fitted to rock in the slide end in well-known way, the slide in this instance being perforated to receive the trunnion of the rocking bearing, while a nut fitted upon the reduced threaded end of the trunnion holds the parts together. The adjusting-bar K is supported and guided in its movements by ways k 7; on a bracket, 7;, bolted to the reel-post stand F by two of the boltsf, which connect the reel-post and inner divider with the stand. The dotted lines, Fig. 9, show the butt-guide as swung inward to act upon shorter grain than that which it would be suited to operate on when adjusted as shown in full lines. The driver, while in the seat A*, can readily adjust the butt-guide by operatingthe lever D.

In order that the reel and the butt-guide, as well as the binder-gearing hereinafter to be described, may readily be thrown into and out of action, the driving sprocket-wheel I is connected with the axle A by pawl-and-ratchet mechanism, essentially such in this instance as that fully set forth in my before-recited Patent No. 267,064, and as hereinbefore referred to in connection with the cutter-drivin g gearing. As shown in Figs. 14 and 15, the wheel I, which is mounted loosely on the axle between the inner frame-bracket, B, and the draw-bar bracket to, is provided with the internal ratchet-toothed annular rim or flange, l and these teeth are engaged by the springactuated pawl 6 pivoted to the pawl carrier or plate 1 which is fastened to the axle. The pawl has a laterally-projecting lug or springengaged side arm, 6 and the spring has an inclined shoulder or bend, i nearits free end. It will be seen that when the pawl-arm is borne against by that part of the spring outside or beyond the shoulder the pawl'nose is held to the ratchet-teeth, while allowed to slip along them or click in backing, but locking the sprocket-wheel to the axle as the machine advances, and that when the pawl is swung inward at its nose to present its side arm to the spring inside of its shoulder, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 15, the pawl-plate is disengaged from the sprocket-wheel, leaving this wheel loose on the axle and throwing the driving-shaft G out of rotation, and stopping the action of all mechanism driven therefrom.

The pawl-attached pin i passing through the slot 42 in the pawl-plate, serves to set the pawl for connecting or disconnecting the sprocketwheel and axle, and the abutment 1 close to or against which the heel end of the pawl works, relieves the pawl-pivot of injurious thrusting strains.

liverer or endless carrier, L, shown as formed of a series of belts, and as provided with adjusting mechanism in most respects identical with or substantially similar to that set forth in the before-recited Patent No. 252,081. Instead of continuing the platform proper or bottom boarding, D to and beneath the carrier-rollers L and L as heretofore, this boardingis confined within the area between the rollers, so that open spaces l l at the inner and outer ends of the platform,or inside of and beyond its boarding, are provided between the finger-beam and back-beam to permit of the escape of clogging matter. The journal ends of the shaft 1 of the driving-roller L of the carrier are suitably mounted in the platform back-beam and in the binder-frame upright portion or gear-plate E The finger-beam is perforated for the passage of the roller-shaft to its bearing-support in the gear-plate. The adjustable or outer carrier-supporting roller, L, is mounted in sliding hearings or adjustable cross-heads Z P, (see Fig. 12,) which are guided in ways secured to the finger-beam and back-beam, and are connected by the-adjustable supporting-bar 0r cross-piece L This bearing-connectingpiece is rendered stiff to guard against ,any possibility of its springing patent, No. 252,081.

or becoming bent by the transverse strains to which it is'subjected; As shown,it is inclined at one edge both ways from its middle, or gradually widened from its ends toward its middle, so making it amply strong and rigid at the point where greatest strength is needed, to stand unyieldingly the thrusting strains imparted by the adjusting-lever L", which, as

shown in Figs. 9, 12, and 13, is pivoted at one end to a bracket, 1*, secured to the back of the finger-beam, and connected midway its length with the cross-piece L by the links or straps L L or it might be by a single looped or bent strap embracing the cross-piece and passing around its straight edge. The straps are pivoted to the cross piece and lever and to strengthen the connection of the parts a block, 1 is secured between the cross-piece and the lever, this block serving also to keep the straps separated sufficiently to afford a space for the lever to vibrate in without being bound by the straps.

The ends of the canvas apron or belts of the carrier are connected by being bent or turned at a right angle, abutting these ends, fitting them between clamping-pieces L L, and securely unitingthem by bolts 1 passing through said pieces and through slots in the belt ends and tightened by nuts. I The carrier-adjusting lever L projects at its rear end through a slot in the back-beam D and detent devices are provided to hold the lever in any position to which it may be adjusted, as in my former The carrier-belts are sustainedagainst injurious sagging by means of supports L arranged beneath the top portions of the belts, sothat the adjacent edges of every two belt-s overlap and bear upon a support. As shown in Figs. 3, 9, 12, and 18, each support is of cross shape or T form in transverse section, and may appropriately be termed a cross-head rib, and is composed of a top or head piece constituting the support proper, and a rib-piece secured at its top edge to the under side thereof, extending along the space between the adjacent edges of the bottom portions of two belts and fastened at its lower edge to the platform bottom or boarding D The belt-supports extend from near the lever L to or nearly to the inner end of the platform.

A binding receptacle or support for the grain,

as it is accumulated to form bundles for binding, is shown as mainly formed by the outwardly-projecting ends M of a series (four in this instancelot' spanner pieces or bridge-bars,

Those porback-beam D, and by the knotting-mechanism casing or box N, which is supported by being suitably secured upon the cut-away ends of two of the bridging-pieces M, and by being fastened by its forwardly-projecting arm or flanged extension 1. and a bolt, 71, to a lug,

n, of the gear-plate E Thepieces M, bridging the space between the sills of the binderframe, are cut away or concaved on their upper edges, and serve as an inclined or curved way along which the grain is moved to the binding-receptacle. These pieces are shown as attached to the sills E E by being connected with strips m m, which are made fast to other strips, m m, bolted to the sills. Instead of the so-formed composite or two-part wooden an gle-bars, by preference employed, an gle-irou may be used-t0 secure to the binder-frame the bars for forming the skeleton or slotted bottomed way and receptacle. Three of these bars project at their inner ends into the spaces m formed by annularly recessing the driving-roller L between the belts of the carrier end of the roller, being cut away or beveled on one side. The front ends of the pieces M are below the level of the top surface of the carrier roller, it should be noticed, so as not to obstruct the delivery of the grain.

A rock-shaft, M suitably journaled at its ends in hearings in the platform back-beam and in the frame-standard or gear-plate E and passing through an opening in the finger-beam, has a series of cut-ofl'rods, M fastened to it. The front one of these rods is shown as fixed to the rock-shaft just in front of the vertical portion or back of the finger-beam, and it, as

well as the rear one of the series of rods, is

cut-ofi, which are arranged to vibrate in the spaces between the belts L, is curved at its end to correspond in shape with the top surface of the annular groove m of the carrierroller,into which it descends beneath the level of the top surface of the carrier when rocked downward, with its end lapping and resting upon or slightly above the end of the pieceM, which projects into the roller-groove.

Curved arms constituting a packer, N secured to and rotating with the shaft 11*, projectbetwcen the bridge-bars M. This packer forces the grain, as deliveredto it by the carrier L, along the way and packs it in the binding-receptacle, so that the pressure of the grain actingonappropriate startingortrippingmechanism may serve to throw the binding mechanism into action. starting the binding mechanism are shown in the beforementioned Patents Nos. 260,668, 261,591, and 261,590; and as such devices donot by themselves constitute any part of my present improvements, and may be variously modified, they need notin detail be described herein. Both the packer N and the binder gear P, hereinafter more fully referred to, are rotated in direction the opposite of that in which the corresponding parts are shown as adapted to be revolved in my inventions formerly patented as above, and the grain passes to the bindingreceptacle beneath the packer-shaft, instead of above it, as formerly. The packer-arms are secured in sets (four in a set in this instance) to their shaft, and are provided with clearers or strippers Mone for each of said sets. The clearers clean the grain from the packer-arms, and, as shown, (see Figs. 3, 4, 6, 7,and 8,) each clearerhasalongitudinalcentralopeningor slot for the packer-arms to rotate in,is supported at its opposite ends bythe packer-shaftandbinderarm shaft, and is formed of strap-iron turned or doubled edgewise upon itself and bent into peculiar shape, so that the series of clearers forms, with the bridge-bars M, agrain passageway,N ,leading to the binding-receptacle, and also partly constitutes this receptacle. Each of these slotted clearers is made adjustable, so as not only to vary the areas of the passageway and the receptacle, but to admit of their ready adjustment to correspond with each other in fitting the parts together. At their outer and upper ends, which are supported by being connected with the binder-arm shaft E the clearers are curved concentrically with the packer-shaft H so that when they are rocked vertically about the packer-shaft in adjusting them up or down their said ends will always occupy proper positions relatively to suitable securing devices mounted on the binder-arm shaft to enable the clearers to be clamped in place.

The securing devices, as shown by Figs. 3, 4, and 8, comprise three brackets, N N N, the brackets N N being fitted loosely and directly on the binder-arm rock-shaft H and the bracket N being cast with a non-turning sleevebearing or tubular frame-support, M, which Suitable devices for so frame stand or gear-plate E incloses this rock-shaft from near its front end to the hub or attaching-sleeve of the binderarm Mflfastenedthereon. Each ofthese clearersupporting brackets is curved on its surface against which the clearer bears, to correspond with the curvature of the outer end of the clearer, which slides upon the bracket in adjusting. The clearer-supporting bracket N is fitted loosely upon the binder-arm shaft, so as not to interfere with its free rocking, by means of a short sleeve or bearing-collar formed with the bracket and held against movement endwise the shaft by cross-pins n a passing through the shaft at the ends ofbracket-sleeve. The bracket N is formed similarly to and mounted in the same way as the bracket 21", except that its bearing-sleeve n is extended at one end and made to abut against the bearing h of the binder-arm shaft, thus rendering necessary the employment of but one of the crosspins a, orits equivalent. Suitable holding devices-such as the'cross-head bolts 11 and their nuts, Fig. 8-serve to clamp the clearers to their brackets, the bolt-shankspassing through the slots of the clearers and their heads being forcibly drawn down upon the clearer ends by the nuts.

In order that the lower or inner ends of the clearers may be supported so as to allow the clearers to rock about the packer-shaft H for adjustment and without interfering with the free rotation of the shaft, while also tending to prevent the rotation with the shaft of a sheath or inclosing-casing with which it is loosely fitted,,to guard against the wrapping of grain about the shaft, this casing is made in sections-ten in allas shown, and in the following manner: The first section, 0, of the packer-shaft casing is composed of a tube fitted at its forward end upon a reduced projection or round tenon-like extension, 0, of a bracketbearing or detachable box, Q, (see Fig. 37 and dotted lines, Figs.3 and 5,) bolted to the binder- The hub of the packer-gear Q, fast on its shaft, abuts against the forward end of the bearing Q, and the forward end of the casing-section O abuts against the tenon baseor shoulder of the bearing projection, as will readily be understood by inspection of Figs. 4 and 19 and the description hereinafter given of the sections O O 0 of the shaft-casing. The opposite end of the casing-section 0 extends nearly to the hub of the first set of packer-arms, N and fits around a tenon-like projection on and abuts against the shoulder of a short sleeve-section, 0, (see similarly-formed sleeves O 0 Fig. 19,) lugged or provided with an ear, 0, to which one branch of the leading clearer M is suitably secured, as by bolt and nut or rivet. The hub of the first set of packer-arms is fitted upon and fastened to the packer-shaft between the casing-section O and another loosely-fitted lugged section, 0 to the lug o of which the remaining branch of the leadingclearer is fastened. This section O has an arm, 0 upon it, for a purpose further on explained, 

